Library
Library opening hours
Brief description
Catalogues
Working Facilities and Resources
Project arthistoricum.net
ZI Document Delivery Service
List of new acquisitions
In 2009 new ordered journals
Other Catalogues and databases
Contact
Library Opening hours
| Mo - Fri | 10.00 a.m. - 8.00 p.m. |
Issuing of admission cards for the library and Photo Study Collection:
| Mo - Fri | 10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. and 2.00 p.m. - 5.00 p.m. |
For initial registration, you will need an I.D. card and appropriate evidence of your academic or vocational occupation. Students studying in Munich can only be admitted for preparation of their Master of Arts or diploma thesis.
| Mo - Fri | 10.45 - 6.15 p.m. |
Ordering of books
Due to the library's open access shelving system, the major part of the
holdings is directly accessible. Rare books (easily identifiable by its
shelf-mark ending with "R"), however, as well as most auction
sales catalogues and other holdings requiring special protection
(microforms, slides, data media etc.) have to be ordered.
Request forms are available in the reading room and at the entrance. The
completed forms are to be handed to the person in charge (at the
entrance), where the media ordered can be picked up. The request forms
can also be submitted by mail, if desired. In this case, please let us
know the date of your arrival. Books ordered before 2.00 p.m. are
available from 3.00 p.m. onwards; books ordered after 2.00 p.m. are
available the following day. For microforms, data media (CD-ROMs etc.)
and slides, please contact the reference desk directly.
Brief description
The library of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte is a reference library with restricted admission. Although it primarily serves art historical research, it is also to be regarded as a source for vocational training or occupational activities.
With its holdings of more than 480,000 volumes, including the Library Herzog Franz von Bayern for Modern Art, as well as about 1,250 current periodicals and over 50,000 auction sales catalogues, the library ranks among the largest art libraries worldwide.
The collection profile covers the entire art history of the Western hemisphere, from the Early Middle Ages up to the present.
Within the system of special subject collections of German art libraries, and supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), the library of the ZI places special emphasis on the following subject matters:
- French Art
- Art and Art-historical Literature of East- and Southeast Europe
- Art theory and Art history
- Iconography
Further areas of collection emphasis include sources on the theory of architecture, Vitruviana and emblem books, art historical literature on world fairs until 1937, on early 20th century architecture, and on gardens.
Due to the library's open access shelving system, the major part of the holdings is directly accessible. On each magazine level, the user can locate the books according to a system of book numbers which follows specific principles.
Catalogues
- Catalogue of the library of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte | [Info]
- Union Catalogue of
the Art Libraries Network Florence - Munich - Rome | [Info]
Union catalogue of the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence (MPI), Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Bibliotheca Hertziana (MPI), Rome
List of current periodicals indexed by the Network Florence - Munich - Rome - artlibraries.net - Virtual Catalogue for Art History | [Info]
System of card catalogues
Please note: The EDP-conversion of the author/title
catalogue and ot the
analytical catalogue is completed.
Consult our list Catalogues and databases for a selection of further catalogues available via Internet.
Working Facilities and Resources
The library is equipped with two reading rooms with a total of 67 seats. Each desk has a bus bar for the use of notebooks. Internet access for notebooks is provided for in reading room 2. In reading room 1 two PCs are available for research in CD-ROM-databases of the ZI-network and for Internet-Research. Furthermore, a PC in reading room 1 is for research in those CD-ROMs which are not pre-installed in the ZI-network, and reading room 2 offers four work stations with Internet access and with access to the CD-ROM-databases of the ZI-network.
Photocopying: When approved by the person in charge, you may make photocopies yourself (Room 142; please note the opening hours of the copying service).
Taking photographs of holdings of the library is subject to approval. The library features a repro stand for both artificial light and daylight photography. Please bring your own camera and register at the catalogue information desk.
Microfiche- and Microfilm-readers are available.
If you require paper copies of microfiches please refer to the Photo Study Collection, where a reader printer is at your disposal.
Project arthistoricum.net
arthistoricum.net - Virtual Library for Art History is being realized thanks to financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG), as a common project of the Library of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich and Heidelberg University Library in co-operation with the Institute for Art History of the LMU Munich and further partners. arthistoricum.net focuses the core competencies of the co-operating institutions into a fundamental platform for research and teaching.
Contact
- Secreterial office:
- Tel.: 089/289-27587
E-Mail: sekr-bib@zikg.eu - Library information desk:
- Tel.:
089/289-27581
E-Mail: infobib@zikg.eu - Director of the library:
- Dr. Rüdiger Hoyer
- Deputy director:
- Dr. Carola Wenzel
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Last update:
24.08.2009